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The revised list of Justices of the Peace is published in the Gazette.
Mr. N. Post has resumed charge of the Austro-Hungarian Consulate in Hongkong.
H. M. twin-screw first class cruiser Leviathan, Captain the Hon. Walter G. Stopford, returned from Mirs Bay on the 6th inst.
The appointments are notified in the Gazette of the Hon. Gershom Stewart as a member of the Medical Board; and of Mr. J. Orange as a Member of the Authorised Architects' Com- mittee.
H. M. twin-screw sloop Algerine, Commander Rowland Nugent, arrived from Singapore on the 6th inst., having left that port on the 23rd alt. She experienced moderate, overcast
weather.
The resignation by Messrs. H. H. J. Gom- pertz and Bruce Shepherd of their posts as President and Member of the New Territory Laud Court is notified in the Gazette; as is the appointment of Messrs. C. Mcl. Messer aud J. R. Wood as Members of that Court.
Banks:
Banks. Chartered Bank of India, Aus-
tralia and China,.. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation National Bank of China, Limited
The following returns of the average amount of banknotes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong during February aro certified by the managers of the respective
Average Specie in A mount. Reserve.
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$ 3,497,153 2,000,000
16,983,514 9,500,000
420,741 150,000
Total. $20,901,410 11,650,000 A meeting of H.M. Justices of the Peace was held on the 1st iust, afternoon at the Magistracy for cousideration of an application by Mr. A. Moir, licences of the Peak Hotel, to have the licence transferred to Mr. George L. Duncan. The presiding Justice was Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Police Magistrate, and the other Justices present were Mr. H. If. J. Gompertz, Acting Polica Magistrate; Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police; and Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Chief Clerk of the Magistracy. There were no police objections, and the transfer was granted unanimously.
It will be remembered that a fancy pigeon show was recently held at the Kowloon Hotel. when Mr. A. Nicholson, of the Cosmopolitan Dock, acted as judge. There was a fiue display representing sine very god types--34 entris in all. Inclu led in this competitors were Mrs. and Miss Logau, and Mess. B. J. Roberts, J W Osborne, F. Hamliu, Archibald. David, Hand, J. C. Logan, T. Logan, G. W. Kynoch, and Sommerville. Mr. J. Roberts secured a first prize for a very handsome black poutor cocks M. J. C. Logan coming second with a grey bea, and Mr. Kynoch third. A splashed pouter cock, owned by Mr. T. Logan, and a bird belonging to Mr. Haud were highly commended. In the Jacobin class the first prize fell to Miss Logan for a pair of red pigeons; other birds belonging to the same lady, received degrees of merit. Miss Logan received another first prize for a pair of red owls (African); a blue owl (English) was highly commended, as also was a bird coming under the heading of twibits.
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Notwiths.anding that the Philharmonic Society were giving a concert in S. Andrew's Hall, the Dallas Company were again favoured with a crowded house in the Theatre Royal on the 5th inst., when they brought most succesful season to a close by a second performance of The Messenger Boy. Through out the Company's season the bookings havs been exceptionally good, and on Saturday eveu- ing, as at some of the previous performances,
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scarcely a vacant seat was to be seau. acting in The Messenger Boy was uniformly good, and the audience extremely enthusiastic. The titl rôle wus capitally taken by Mr. Percival Knight, and Miss Grace Desmond, us Tommy's mother, was an equally good imperson- ution. Ju the second act Miss Blanche Garbetto played a selection on the violin which proved
her
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Dallas Company and H.M.8. Glory had a pleasant game of cricket and tea-party on the field, at Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon. The Glory wou.
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A Russian torpedo-boat, in passing the Canal, collided with and sank an Egyptian Revenue cutter. It is expected the Canal will be blocked for 24 hours.
As will bare been seen from advertisement It is stated that 2,000 additional troops are the Amateur Dramatic Club will give repeat going to Malta; it is supposed with a view to performances of Gilbert's comedy His Ex-proceeding to China in the event of necessity cellency on Friday and Saturday, 11th and 12th arising. iast. Several new features will be introduced, including a dance by the Governor and Nanna, a country dance, etc.
while transferred bis allegiance from Shanghai Mr. Morgan Phillips, who for a short.
to Hongkong, has rejoined the firm of Drum. mond and White-Cooper in Shanghai.
12th February, that belligerents were not The Egyptian Government decided, on the allowed to escort prizes through the Canal. It presumed that this contributed to the release of the colliers.
Quite a number of warships have left Hong- kong at the beginning of the week. The Cressy and Ocean left on the 1st inst. while next day's departures uambered four, viz. Leviathan, Fearless, Centurion, and the Aus-is trian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth. The latter, it will be remembered, arrived from. Batavia on Saturday; she has proceeded north. Fearless is bound for Weihaiwei. and the Leviathan aud Centurion for Mirs Bay. It is very hard to say, of course, whether the latter two will return shortly, or be ordered north.
The
The final ball of a successful series given by the Masonic Quadrille Club took place in the Masonic Hall in Ice House Street on the 5th inst.
to be # skilful executant, and xbe Was recalled again and again. At the fall of the curtain there was a vigor u, outburst of app'ause by way of saying farewell to the Company, who are proceeding to Shanghai. It is probable that on their way south they will again occupy the stage at the theatre for a few nights.
the function but adding laurels to those already won by the President, Mr. H. W. Wolfe, and the committee, among whom were Messrs. J. Sibbett, F. Robins, W. Higley, J. Gast, E. Day, J. A. Wheal, H. Jewitt, F. Stokes. J. Hawkes, W. Hills, E. R. Udall, A. P. Goodwin, the M.C.'s being Messrs. W. E. Smith, H. J. McCoffery, and C. N. Parkinsou; G. J. W. King, ex-secretary, and Messrs. W. F. Hant. R.E.. and W. E. Smith, R.E., who had all worked hard to make the last ball of the season the nuqualified success it proved. The rooms Jind beeu very gaily decorated with palms, ferns. flags, and flowers, the verandahs being turned into veritable bowers, affording delightful resting places for the light trippers in the giddy mazs of the waltz, and her light fantasticorolutions, and was ablaz wita Japan se lauterns. The rooms jhal al! been elegantly arranged as bon oirs for the ladies, and cloak-rooms for the hardier excellent supper, to which full justice was done, was laid out in the library, the tables being most tastefully arranged. It was veritably and indeed, in the "wee sma' hours ayant the twal" that the company reluctantly disperso.1, and then only on account of certain siguificant acti us on the part of the lighting appiratus!
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The two battleships recently contracted for in England by Japan are to be named Kalori and Kashima.
Mr. C. E. St. G. Caulfeil', Director of Works Malay States, has been made a Com- panion of the Imperi 1 Service Order.
Sub-Lieutenant R. L. Jermain has been pro- moted to the rank of Lieutenant iu His Majesty's Fleet, for services during the operations in orth China in 1900.
The appointment is notified u the Gazette of Mr. E. P. Hallifax as Acting Captain Superin tendent of Police on the departure of Capt. F. W. Lyons on leave of absence.
Mr. J. P. Joaquim, a well-known Federated Malay States lawyer, died at Kuala Lumpur on
the 16th ult. He succumbed to an acute aff c-
tion of the Im gs.
The new Japanese Consul at Singapore, Mr. Tokichi Tanaka, arrived from Japan on the 22nd ult. Mr. Tanaka has previously been Vice- Consul at New York.
The Siamese Government have notified the
Banks that the Government selling rate for ticals is now 16.67 to the pound sterling. This corresponds to a dollar at 2-
Sir John Anderson, K.C.M.C, the new Governor of the Straits Settlements, hopes to lavo England towards the end of this month to take up the du ies of his new post.
The leave granted to Governor Truppel of Kiaochau has been, for the time being, cancelled. Captain van Eeminors, who was appointed Acting Governor, has been transferred to the Naval Cffice at Berlin,
Mr. Donald Macgregor, deputy foreman in the Temperate House, Royal Gardens, Kew, Surrey, has been appointed superintendent of the Parks and Open Spaces at Shanghai. He passed throught Horgkong on the Coromandel. A circnlar was issued at Calenta calling a great meeting of Hindus on the Maidau on th 14th ult. to pray for the success of Japan. A similar circular on the occasion of the death of the late Queen Victoria resulted in a gathering of over a hundred thousand people.
We are informed by the Manager of the local office of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha that the Kanagawa Maru, which left London on the 9th January, arrived at Malta on the 7th February, and there transferred her passengers
for the Far East into the P. & U. steamer, Palawan.
Shanghai, reports the N.-C Daily News, is shortly to have a paper in which Russian vic- tories and Russi-n ideals will be given that prominence which it is affirmed they have not yet received. The new journal, waich is to be entitled Shanghai Truth, is expected to make its appearance about the beginning of this mouth. It will be issued daily, and in order that it may be gen rally understood, will be printed in English. Our contemporary does not give the names of the staff, but numberless suggestions might be made.
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We regret to hear from Singapore of the death there on the 18:h ult. of Mr. H. Copeland, chief engineer of the R.M.S. Suisang (Messrs. Jardine, Mathesou & Co). The cause of death was the barsting of a blood-vessel. Mr. Copeland was a young man, an Australian. He had been about seven years with the company, and two years chief. He was well. kuowu in longkoug, and was highly respected by his employers as a capable and hard-working officer. Mr. Copeland was in excellent health when the Suisang sailed from Hongkong.
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Count von Waldersee is dead. Thisintelligence regret in China, where the late Ci'n mal. Am. self known in the time of the Bx tinulies. Field Marshal Count von Walderse was boru în 1-32. He entered the Prussian Army in 1850, and served in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870. During the Franco-German War he acted as aide de camp to the King of Prussia, and was present as a staff officer at the battles of ravelotte, Buman', and Sedan. In 1871 he was appointed Ge man Chargé d'Affaires in Paris; while some 17 years later he acted as chief of the Prussian staff. In 1891 he com- mande the 9th Army Corps, and he was appointed Inspector-General of the Third army in 1898. He was appointed to the commard of the Allied Fores in China in 1901, butarrived too late to take much part in the campaign. In fact he was not a great success in the post, but personally he inspired respect.-ED. D.P.]
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A correspondent writes with reference to our leading article of Saturday that most readers of Mr. Hancock's boo' ou Japan will surely be astonished when they come upon the statement that "in consequence of the physical ex rcises (i.e.. jiu-jitsu) practised by them the Japanese have become the healthiest, the strongest, and the happiest men and women in the world." "As a matter of fact," writes our correspondent, "it can hardly be claimed that jiu-jitsu is any more a national exercise in Japan than is wrestling in England. Very few Japanese are traiued in the science, and it is a well ascertained fact that the physique of the Japanese has been rapidly deteriorating with the growth of industrial conditions, and the almost universal disregard of physical exercises. A study of the statistics of the Army recruiting office will be convincing on this point. If I mistake not, the Government of Japan for some five or six years past has annually voted a sum of money for the encouragement of western physical exercises cricket, baseball, football, rowing, 30. among the youth of the country in order. to improve their physique,"
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